Sonia Kallel was born in Tunis in 1973. After studying fashion design at the Higher School of Fashion Industries in Toulouse, she chose to study graphic arts at the School of Fine Arts in Tunis. She then defended a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since then, she has been working in Tunis. As of 2010, she has been dedicating her creations to forgotten professions and communities, adopting an anthropological method of proximity based on meetings and exchanges. Her creations testify to the need to put artistic production at the service of social causes. Sonia Kallel has participated in many major artistic events in Tunisia, Europe and the Middle East.